META hit with privacy complaints by EU consumer groups
This is my interview with TRT International on the Meta dispute with EU consumer groups, which are calling on the
Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: This Devilishly Hard Logic Puzzle Will Save Your Life

This week’s puzzle is difficult. Not because it has an exceedingly complicated solution, but because the idea that underlies it is deep and ingenious. I only know of one method to solve it, but I’m curious whether alternative approaches exist. Feel free to spitball half-baked ideas in the comments. You might find…
How To Organize Your Travel With This Little-Known Google Maps Feature

If you haven’t spent a lot of time inside Google Maps—besides getting from A to B and finding the nearest restaurant or bar—then you might not know about all the various features stuffed into the app since it first launched in 2005.
US State Department Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on Iranian Spearphisher
national with involvement in spearphishing attacks against government and
private entities. The fed is offering a $10 million reward for information
leading to the hacker’s arrest.
Between 2016 and 2021, Alireza Shafie Nasab allegedly
[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-national-charged-multi-year-hacking-campaign-targeting-us-defense-contractors-and]
formed part of a hacking organization that ran a coordinated campai
Someone is hacking 3D printers to warn owners of a security flaw
security vulnerability?
If you answered “yes” to both those questions, then chances are that I can guess
just how you found out your 3D printer was vulnerable to hackers.
My bet is that you might have learnt about the problem after seeing a strange
message displayed on your device, claiming that it had been hacked.
As multiple posts
[https://www.reddit.com/r/anycubic/comments/1b1nh1i/hacked_3d_printer/] on
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Hackers Could Have Taken Over Your Facebook Account Using This Trick
by manipulating weaknesses in the social network’s password reset mechanism.
In a moment of boredom, bug bounty hunter Samip Aryal from Nepal discovered
[https://infosecwriteups.com/0-click-account-takeover-on-facebook-e4120651e23e]
that by uninstalling and re-installing the Facebook app with different
user-agents he could manipulate Facebook’s password reset flow to brute force
the authentication/login code, and ta
Data breach at Australian telco exposes personal info of over 230,000 customers
a data breach that exposed the PII of over 232,000 Australian customers earlier
this month.
Tangerine Telecom disclosed earlier this month that the details of current and
former customers were accessed by an unauthorized party using the compromised
credentials of one of its contractors. The user’s credentials were subsequently
revoked to prevent further compromise.
“It appears the unauthorised disclosure of certain
Shield & Shine: Illuminating your Loved Ones’ Path Through the Scam Maze
latest technological advancements and prey on the goodwill of the unsuspecting.
While for the tech-savvy among us, some scams may be laughably transparent –
especially the low-effort ones that clutter our inboxes and message feeds – the
reality is dramatically different for those less familiar with the digital
realm.
For individuals not well-versed in the nuances of technology, even the most
rudimentary phishing a
Google Issues Important Security Updates for Chrome on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS
users of its Chrome web browser, addressing a plurality of vulnerabilities
before attackers could exploit them.
The web giant this month promoted
[https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html]
the Chrome Stable channel to version 122 on all supported platforms. In a series
of security-focused updates, Google has been rolling out patches for
vulnerabilities that motivated a